International students’ negotiation of identities during transnational studies in Hong Kong: The role of language

International students’ negotiation of identities during transnational studies in Hong Kong: The role of language

• Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew City University of Hong Kong

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, (0), 1-18, 2019

Routledge

2019

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching

International Student Identity Linguistic Capital Agency Language Ideology

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper investigates the experiences of two international students with different linguistic backgrounds in a university in Hong Kong, with particular attention to the role of language in their identity negotiation during their transnational studies. Based on their contrasting narratives, the study revealed that the two students’ identity negotiation experiences appeared to be shaped by their different language competences, which were valued differently in the academic and social contexts within the university. It was found that the degree of (in)compatibility between their language competences and the norms and expectations associated with the academic and social contexts within the university context impacted on their negotiation of fuller forms of participation and their construction of desirable identities. Furthermore, the two students’ different language ideologies and their different abilities to exercise agency in mobilising their linguistic capital in exchange for other forms of capital were found to mediate their identity negotiation and transformation. Copyright © 2019 British Association for International and Comparative Education.

• English

Journal Articles

• 03057925

• 10.1080/03057925.2019.1674635

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/06ac05f0

2020-08-26